Journalists rewrote their own job descriptions to make their work more fulfilling. Opinions went from the Op/Ed page and named columnists to every section of the paper. Pick up a recent copy of any big city paper and you will find Palin comments in the movie reviews, sports section, comics, music reviews, and even the food section. Really. You can see Russian vodka from the bar stool at the new restaurant. The local team tanked like Palin in an interview. Sitting through the movie was like sitting through the Palin debate. I have examples for the rest, but why bother. The 'news' pages went from the standard of no one discerning a point of view after reading to full advocacy, without presenting opposing views in most cases.

I've read my daily paper, the Chicago Tribune, each day of the 48 years I've been reading. I canceled it yesterday. I should have done it in 1991 when the dam broke.
I'll see the ads at the stores. The internet will fill in the rest.

Good work lately, Fluffy!!!!

Wish mu.nu. would spend a couple of bucks and buy real anti-spam software instead of the Atari 2600 stuff they've been using.

Sherlock Holmes might notice the embedded code in the spam. So would Mr. Magoo.

But Fluffy you still do a great job of keeping off the real comments! Keep up the good work!

Still--a sad day.

I've talked to Pixy; we have a plan. Look for changes within a couple of weeks, and let me know if you know any good blog-designers.

I hesitate to say anything since someone misunderstood a joke I made and clicked on a link that down loaded hemorrhoid based malware on his very expensive computer. Sorry Jimmy.

I think the death of journalism is rooted in its its becoming a profession. Lenin said "professionalism is a plot against the working class" by which he meant that it allowed "professionals" to prevent others from doing the same job and thus should be shot down like Kulaks. I like Commies, I don't agree with their economic malarkey but they sure get down to business when it comes to shooting the folks that get in the way!